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Health insurance coverage and the macroeconomy [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 2005 This paper investigates the relationship between the macroeconomy and health insurance coverage for non-elderly Americans. We find that, for men, state unemployment rate is positively correlated with the probability of health insurance coverage in general and through an employer in particular, and that these correlations are only partly explained by ...
John Cawley, Kosali I. Simon
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Household search and health insurance coverage [PDF]
Journal of Econometrics, 2008 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Matthew Dey, Christopher Flinn
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Health Insurance Coverage and Adverse Selection [PDF]
, 2011 The term adverse selection is used in the insurance literature to describe a situation where an individual’s demand for insurance (either the propensity to buy insurance, or the quantity purchased, or both) is positively correlated with the individual’s risk of loss (e.g.
Lambert, Philippe +3 more
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Gender Differences in Health Insurance Coverage in China [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 Abstract Background: The Chinese government has been trying to build a universal public social health insurance (SHI) system since the early 2000s and has essentially achieved universal SHI coverage. By 2018, more than 97% of the entire Chinese population had SHI. However, there are still some obvious inequities in the SHI system.
Mei Zhou, Shaoyang Zhao, Zhi Zhao
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The effect of the state children’s health insurance program on health insurance coverage [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 2004 This paper presents the first national estimates of the effects of the SCHIP expansions on insurance coverage. Using CPS data on insurance coverage during the years 1996-2000, we estimate instrumental variables regressions of insurance coverage. Our regression results imply that 9% of children meeting income eligibility standards for SCHIP gained ...
Anthony T. LoSasso +1 more
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Health Insurance Coverage and Mortality Revisited [PDF]
Health Services Research, 2009 Objective. To improve understanding of the relationship between lack of insurance and risk of subsequent mortality.Data Sources. Adults who reported being uninsured or privately insured in the National Health Interview Survey from 1986 to 2000 were followed prospectively for mortality from initial interview through 2002.
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Increasing Health Insurance Costs and the Decline in Insurance Coverage [PDF]
Health Services Research, 2005 Objective. To determine the impact of rising health insurance premiums on coverage rates.Data Sources & Study Setting. Our analysis is based on two cohorts of nonelderly Americans residing in 64 large metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) surveyed in the Current Population Survey in 1989–1991 and 1998–2000.
Michael, Chernew +2 more
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Health insurance coverage and the disability insurance application decision [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2002 We investigate the effect of health insurance coverage on the decision of individuals to apply for Disability Insurance (DI). Those who qualify for DI receive public insurance under Medicare, but only after a two-year waiting period. This raises concerns that many disabled are going uninsured while they wait for their Medicare coverage.
Gruber, Jonathan, Kubik, Jeffrey D
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Health insurance coverage and health care access in Moldova [PDF]
Health Policy and Planning, 2011 In 2004, the Moldovan government introduced mandatory (social) health insurance (MHI) with the goals of sustainable health financing and improved access to services for poorer sections of the population. The government pays contributions for non-employed groups but the self-employed, which in Moldova include many agricultural workers, must purchase ...
Richardson, E. +4 more
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Race, Ethnicity and the Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into and out of health insurance coverage. The low rate of health
Fairlie, Robert W., London, Rebecca A.
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